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23rd March 06, 09:25 PM
#14
Well. I'll go the opposite way here. My SW Black Watch heavyweight is rather heavier than the Lamont. Soooooo, somewhere in between. Jerry told me in an email that the Lamont was approx 13 oz wool. I guess he should know, but then he calls the Black Watch 16 oz and I personally think it's a bit heavier than that. What I have to go on is a 5 yard heavyweight 16 oz from scottishkilts.net from the Jura mill. The fabric of my Black Watch SW is definitely heavier than this cloth, while the fabric of my Lamont seems really close to the same as the Jura 16 oz. Without snipping off pieces of my kilts and whacking them on a scale that's about as close as I can estimate.
In some ways my SW Black Watch is my favorite kilt, the hang, the swing, the solid feel of it. My Jura 5 yarder is easily the best made and the cloth is really superb. My Sw Lamont I think has a superior cloth to the Black Watch but the "Tank" feeling just isn't there.
I'm keeping all of them though, and rotating them pretty fairly as well. My SW standard I like, but it's a stretch to hang it in the same closet as the others really, and it's the red headed stepchild as far as getting in the kilt rotation.
I really have to get myself a real "Tank" just to see if there's really $200 to $400 worth of difference between that and the **** kilts.
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